After 24 years, 6-3 win over BU brings it back home

Athletics News

For the second-time in four years, Harvard will visit the nation’s capital, as the Crimson will face Georgetown at RFK Stadium Saturday afternoon. The game will be broadcast live on the Patriot League Network.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard sailing team posted two top-five finishes this weekend. The Crimson made appearances at the 35th Professor Stedman Hood Trophy, the Amanda Trophy and the NEISA Men’s and Women’s Singlehanded Championships.

The Harvard women’s golf team completed play at the Nittany Lion Invitational today, earning a seventh-place finish (899, +35) in its first tournament of the season. Anna Zhou led the team, tying for fourth in the individual competition with round scores of 73, 70 and 72 on Penn State’s par 72 Blue Course.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men’s tennis team competed at the Ivy Plus Invitational at Princeton and Yale in its second tournament of the fall season. Facing strong opposition from 16 other teams, the Crimson secured 12 doubles wins and 13 singles wins in a number of close matches throughout the weekend.

Harvard sophomore Eli Dershwitz represented the United States at the Summer Olympics in the men’s saber fencing competition in Rio de Janeiro. While he didn’t win a medal this time, Dershwitz said the intense training and discipline required to make it to Brazil gave him the confidence to succeed at Harvard and the drive to “reach certain academic levels.”

The Harvard men’s and Radcliffe women’s rowing crews will be out in full force during this year’s Head of the Charles Regatta, taking place Oct. 20-21 along the Charles River. A video interview with Harry Parker, the Thomas Bolles Head Coach for Harvard Men's Crew, explores the love of the sport.

They are an eclectic group of Harvard students, staff, faculty, and community members. They range in age from their late teens to 50-something. They can be freshmen or CEOs, but they move fast, and under their own power. They ride by bike.

English soccer champions Manchester United made a brief stop at Harvard University as part of their U.S. pre-season tour, during which they’ll face several Major League Soccer teams including the Massachusetts-based New England Revolution. Sir Alex Ferguson led the star-studded squad through Harvard Yard, stopping at the statue of John Harvard for a photograph. Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, Park Ji-Sung and Rio Ferdinand were among the crowd.

Members of Manchester United Football Club visited Harvard to conduct a soccer clinic with local youth from the Boston neighborhoods of Allston and Brighton, and to play tourist in Harvard Yard with Harvard President Drew Faust.